| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: made them possible.
A notion was current at the time that, in such a shop as
Fairbairn's, a pupil would never be popular unless he drank with
the workmen and imitated them in speech and manner. Fleeming, who
would do none of these things, they accepted as a friend and
companion; and this was the subject of remark in Manchester, where
some memory of it lingers till to-day. He thought it one of the
advantages of his profession to be brought into a close relation
with the working classes; and for the skilled artisan he had a
great esteem, liking his company, his virtues, and his taste in
some of the arts. But he knew the classes too well to regard them,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: hands."
"Eh, my friend, it's impossible to do you. It's you who are ever
ready to do us," said the steward.
"Do you, indeed. Didn't you smash my jaw for me, and I got
nothing for it? No good going to law with the rich, it seems."
"You should keep to the law."
A tournament of words was apparently going on without those who
took part in it knowing exactly what it was all about; but it was
noticeable that there was bitterness on one side, restricted by
fear, and on the other a consciousness of importance and power.
It was very trying to Nekhludoff to listen to all this, so he
Resurrection |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Second Home by Honore de Balzac: advantage of this freedom. As to the old Count, he gently whistled the
tune of an old song, /Va-t-en-voir s'ils viennent/ ("Go and see if
they are coming on!")
A few days after the wedding festivities of which so much is thought
in the provinces, Granville and his wife went to Paris, whither the
young man was recalled by his appointment as public prosecutor to the
Supreme Court of the Seine circuit.
When the young couple set out to find a residence, Angelique used the
influence that the honeymoon gives to every wife in persuading her
husband to take a large apartment in the ground-floor of a house at
the corner of the Vieille Rue du Temple and the Rue Nueve Saint-
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